Healthy Blueberry Breakfast Smoothie - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1 tablespoon white sugar, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 pinch ground cinnamon, or to taste
- 3 ice cubes
Instructions
- Blend blueberries, yogurt, orange juice, sugar, vanilla extract, and cinnamon together in a blender on low speed for 30 seconds; increase speed to high and blend until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add ice and blend on high until smooth, about 1 minute more.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).
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